Muhammad Hamidullah: His Pioneering Works on Islamic Economics

by Abdul Azim Islahi

Overview

Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah was a genius and prolific writer. Anyone who has an interest in the Qur’ans translation, Hadith literature International Islamic Law, Islamic Politics and archival heritage of Islam cannot ignore Dr. Hamidullah’s contributions. He started writings on the subject of Islamic Economics as early as the 1930s. He was a pioneer in Islamic economics and many firsts in this subject belong to him. For instance: interest free financial institutions in the modern period, advocacy of mutuality as the basis for Islamic insurance, mutuality based Islamic finance and proposal for establishment of international interest-free monetary fund. He also critiques current systems and offers an alternative. His works are also a rich source of Islamic economic history. None of his contemporaries in the first half of twentieth century had written on such a diverse aspect of the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860379140
Publisher:	Kube Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	01/14/2025
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is the former Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University– Islamic Economics. He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD from Aligarh Muslim Universityin 1981. He is considered an authority on the history of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is “Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah” (Islamic Foundation, UK, 1988, republished in 1996). He has contributed four articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics (London, 2009). He has to his credit 20 books and more than 100 research papers on the subject of Islamic Economics published in various national and international refereed journals. Prof. Islahi recently received the Istanbul-based Islamic Economics Research Centre, IKAM’s Islamic Economics Contribution Award for his Lifetime Achievement in the field of Islamic Economics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement                         

Foreword                               

Preface                                

Preface To The Second Edition                 

1   Muhammad Hamidullah: Life and Works         

2   An Introduction to Hamidullah’s: Contributions to Islamic Economics                      

3   Zakah as The State Finance: A Critical Study of Hamidullah’s Views                     

4  Islam’s Solution of The Basic Economic Problems:

The Position of Labour                   

5  Property (An International Islamic Perspective)   

6   Islamic Insurance                      

7   Interest-Free Cooperative Lending Societies      

8   The Political Significance of Zakah           

9   Islam and Communism                   

10  Haidarabad’s Contribution to Islamic Economic

Thought and Practice              

  11 A Suggestion for an Interest-Free Islamic

Monetary Fund 

12 Budgeting and Taxation in The Time of

The Holy Prophet 

13 The Economic System of Islam 

14 Revenue and Calendar 

15 Financial Administration in The Muslim State 

16 Book Review – 1 

17 Book Review – 2 

18 Book Review – 3 

Bibliography 

Index